Adolescence, Violence, and Public Health

Adolescence, Violence, and Public Health

1 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, ...

[Violence and public health].

Violence and Adolescence in Urban Settings: A Public Health Approach Based on the MLIVEA Framework

Adolescent violence is a public health issue with global relevance and far-reaching health consequences. It impairs the well-being of those involved and makes demands on health services. The review gives insight into the determinants leading to the health effects of urban violence focusing on young people. For this purpose a new comprehensive framework has been developed and applied. The new fr...

Injury and violence: a public health perspective.

This report examined injury and violence from a public health perspective. The discussion focuses on the magnitude of the problem, age and regional patterns, war mortality, motor vehicle accidents, natural disasters, US injury and violence mortality and morbidity trends by age, the history of injury, the relationship between energy and injury, similarities between disease and injuries, injury ...

[Public health--violence and sexual abuse].